Faculty: Peter Johnston, Ph.D. Email [email protected] Faculty By appointment Availability: Program Denny Christiansen Coordinator: COURSE OUTLINE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/201 Course Title: History of Canadian Music Course Code: HIST Schedule Type Credit Value: 3 Class Hours: 3 3000 Code: Pre-Requisite(s): Lower Program: Liberal Arts & Science level Social Science Co-requisite(s): None elective Pre-requisite for: N/A Restrictions: Not available to MUSIC degree students Course Description History of Canadian music is an exciting upper-level course that examines the contributions of important Canadian musicians and musical styles while enriching the students’ relationship, understanding, and listening experience with Canadian music through selected musical examples and topics. As music is an excellent portal through which to analyze a host of extra-musical issues, History of Canadian Music offers students the opportunity to explore a variety of issues and ideas while learning to identify, assess, and differentiate between various historical periods, genres, and geographical styles of Canadian music. Course Rationale This course meets the requirement of an upper level ‘breadth elective’ in the Social Sciences for Humber degree students. Please note that Bachelor of Music degree students are NOT eligible to take this course. Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning • 2013/2014 This document is available in alternate format upon request. Learning Outcomes Upon successful completion of this course, students will have demonstrated the ability to: 1. Discover Canadian music, its history and surrounding issues 2. Critique and appraise Canadian music, musical movements, figures, genres, compositions, and styles 3. Identify and debate the issues that can be illuminated from Canadian music’s historical narrative, construction, and reception 4. Demonstrate an understanding of how various musical styles work together to create the “constructed” identity of Canadian music. 5. Appraise, evaluate, and discuss which styles, genres, and eras of Canadian music are privileged in terms of their critical reception 6. Demonstrate, through assignments and a final exam, a recognition of the history and surrounding issues facing Canadian music 7. Assess and debate the importance of local scenes and their impact on Canadian music 8. Examine and assess the Canadian music industry’s “star system” (CARAS, Canadian Music Week, The Juno Awards, Canadian content regulations), locating and debating various issues that are illuminated from this narrative and its reception. Essential Employability Skills Essential Employability Skills are transferable skills that provide the foundation for a student’s academic, vocational, and personal success. X Communication X Critical Thinking & Interpersonal Problem Solving Numeracy Information X Personal Management Learning Resources Required Texts: Starr, L., Hodgson, J. & Waterman, C.A. (2009). Rock: A Canadian Perspective. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press Wilson, C. (2010). Let’s talk about love: A journey to the end of taste. New York, Continuum International Publishing Group Articles, audio resources, and YouTube links available on Blackboard Other resources available through Dropbox Copyright Copyright is the exclusive legal right given to a creator to reproduce, publish, sell or distribute his/her work. All members of the Humber community are required to comply with Canadian copyright law which governs the reproduction, use and distribution of copyrighted materials. This means that the copying, use and distribution of copyright- protected materials, regardless of format, is subject to certain Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning • 2013/2014 This document is available in alternate format upon request. limits and restrictions. For example, photocopying or scanning an entire textbook is not allowed, nor is distributing a scanned book. See the Humber Libraries website (http://library.humber.ca) for additional information regarding copyright and for details on allowable limits. Learning Delivery Format Three-hour classroom lecture/demonstration and discussion format. PowerPoint, interactive lectures and discussions, group work, class discussions, listening examples, and audio-visual presentations Course Content UNIT TOPIC ASSESSMENT RESOURCES (all sources available on Blackboard website) Week Introduction Reading: 1 Discussion points On Blackboard: include: a broad introduction to Culture/Society/Culture Industry, Popular Music/Culture, the History of and Mass Media music in Canada and an overview of the issues to be encountered this semester. Week Jazz Reading: 2 Discussion points From Text: Waterman, Starr and Hodgson, include: The “Introduction,”: The Post War Context; The Baby Boom, history of jazz in Baby Boomers, and Post-War Canada; Canada: A Middle Canada from Power; Anti-Communism, Continental Solidarity, and Freddie Keppard Americanization; Rock and Roll Teenagers - North and and the Creole South. Band’s 1914 Winnipeg On Blackboard: performance to Michael Buble and 1). Jazz – The Canadian Encyclopeida Diana Krall. 2). Miller, Mark. “Introduction” from Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada, 1914-1949. 3) Jazz Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning • 2013/2014 This document is available in alternate format upon request. Week Part I: Reading: Canadian 3 Traditional From Text: Waterman, Starr and Hodgson, “Chapter and Folk One”: Pre-History of Rock 'n' Roll, 1944-1955, The Top Music. 40 and Market Saturation: The Industrial Basis of Musical Conservatism, Musical Technology in the Post-War Era, Discussion points Urban Folk Music, The Folk Genre in Canadian Popular include: Traditional Music, Pop Crooners, Country Music, Rhythm and Blues, Music, First Red Robinson Broadcasts R&B: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll. Nations Music, Aboriginal Sound On Blackboard: Recordings, Acadian 1). Hoefnagels, Anna and Beverley Diamond “Introduction” from Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada: Echoes and Exchanges. 2) Folk Music Week Part II: Reading: Canadian 4 Traditional From Text: Starr, Waterman and Hodgson, “Chapter and Folk 3”: From Rock to Pop in Canada, the Rise of Chansons Music. Engagés & the Arrival of The Beatles, 1958-1964; From Rock to Pop: Solo Pop Singers in Canada; Chansonniers, Discussion points Chansons Engagés, and the Rise of Separatism; Urban Folk include: The and the Urban Folk Revival; Yorkville Village: 'Your Last Yorkville music Stop on the Way to Somewhere Else'; Producers, scene, The Arrangers, and the Early Sixties Ephemera; Beatlemania Mariposa Folk and the British Invasion. Festival, Bernie Finkelstein and On Blackboard: True North Records, Joni 1). Henderson, Stuart, “Chapter 1: Remaking the Scene,” Mitchell, Bruce from Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the Cockburn, Neil 1960s. Young, Gordon Lightfoot and Leslie Feist. Week Canadian Book Review Reading: Popular Music 5 Assignment From Text: 1). Starr, Waterman and Hodgson, “Chapter Due (10%) 2”: Rock 'n' Roll Erupts, 1954-1960; Technology and the Rise of Rock 'n' Roll; Cover Versions and Early Rock 'n' Roll White R&B; The Rock 'n' Roll Business in Canada; Early Rock 'n' Roll on the Country Side: Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly; Early Rock 'n' Roll on the R&B Side: Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino Songwriters and Producers of Early Rock 'n' Roll; Pat Boone, Paul Anka, and 'Clean Teen' Rock 'n' Roll. On Blackboard: Popular Music/Culture Reading Week Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning • 2013/2014 This document is available in alternate format upon request. Week 6 Midterm (20%) Week The Canadian Podcast Reading: 7 Music Assignment Industry. From Text: 1). Starr, Waterman and Hodgson, “Chapter (10%) 5”: Rock in the CRTC Era-The 1970s, The Late Sixties Discussion points and the Early Seventies in Canada, The Rock Industry in include: The 2011 the 1970s, The CRTC Era, Roots Rock and the Retreat Arcade Fire from Radicalism, Pop Singer-Songwriters, Canadian Grammy Award, Singer-Songwriters, Canadian Country in the 1970s, Rock The Broken Social Comes of Age, Album-Oriented Rock, Appropriating the Scene, Arts Classical Tradition: Progressive Rock, Led Zeppelin and &Crafts, SOCAN, Heavy Metal, Santana: The Roots of Multiculturalism MuchFACT and Canada and Its Discontents: Closing Out the 1970s. the Canada Council. On Blackboard: Mass Media, The Culture Industry Week Part I: Rock ‘n’ Reading: Roll. 8 From Text: Starr, Waterman and Hodgson, “Chapter Discussion points 4”: Rock in/and 'The Sixties'-1964-1969, Ray Charles and include: an the Dawn of Soul, Soul Brother Number One and Lady overview of Soul, The Beach Boys Better the Beatles: 'Good Canadian rock Vibrations', Dylan Goes Electric: The Beginning of Folk from the 1960s to Rock Buffalo Springfield and the Marketing of Dissent, the present: The Simon and Garfunkel, The Rise of Counterculture, Sgt. Band, Lighthouse, Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, San Francisco and the The Stampeders, Rise of Acid/Psychedelic Rock, Rock Across Canada The Guess Who Festivals: Woodstock, Altamont, and the Festival Express, and Rush. The Guess Who Breaks Through. On Blackboard: 1). Listen to/read transcript of Professor Rob Bowman speaking about Canadian Music at the Red Bull Academy available free/online: http:// www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/rob-bowman-- canadian -class Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning • 2013/2014 This document is available